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Effect Of Supplementing Magnesium Picolinate In Drinking Water On Growth Performance, Meat Quality And Cecal E. Coli Of Broiler Reared Under Tropical Conditions, Siriporn Namted, Choawit Rakangthong
Effect Of Supplementing Magnesium Picolinate In Drinking Water On Growth Performance, Meat Quality And Cecal E. Coli Of Broiler Reared Under Tropical Conditions, Siriporn Namted, Choawit Rakangthong
The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine
The effect of Mg supplementation in drinking water was evaluated on the growth performance, carcass quality, meat quality and cecal E. colilevel of Broilersreared under Tropical Conditions. A sample of 192 male broiler chickens (Ross 308) were divided into 2 groups(each group consisting of 8 replicates of 12 chicks each) as: 1) control group, without Mg supplementation in the drinking water; and 2) Drinking Mg group, 10 mg of Mg/L was added into 1 L of their drinking water. It was shown that supplementing Mg in the drinking water significantly reduced body weight (P = 0.04) and tended to decrease …